T. H. White Quotes
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To grow up knowing you're loved is astounding. It's a huge gift to a child.
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I have thought a sufficient measure of civilization is the influence of good women.
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I wonder sometimes if the motivation for writers ought to be contempt, not admiration.
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Once brave politicians and others explain the war on drugs' true cost, the American people will scream for a cease-fire. Bring the troops home, people will urge. Treat drugs as a health problem, not as a matter for the criminal justice system.
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To be honest, proper recognition has only come from the fans. I don't want to be hard, and I don't want to be negative, but I want to be honest.
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Like success, failure is many things to many people. With Positive Mental Attitude, failure is a learning experience, a rung on the ladder, a plateau at which to get your thoughts in order and prepare to try again.
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Unfortunately, what many people forget is that judges are just lawyers in robes.
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As we began working toward the finale of 'Lost,' I knew there was no possible ending that was going to be universally loved, and I accepted that. We ended the story the way we wanted it to end, and we stand by it. On my Twitter feed, I still get ten to fifteen positive comments for every negative one.
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More than anything, there are more images in evil. Evil is based far more on the visual, whereas good has no good images at all.
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I never intended for the Monster Ball to be a religious experience, it just became one.
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I was taking my first uncertain steps towards writing for children when my own were young. Reading aloud to them taught me a great deal when I had a great deal to learn. It taught me elementary things about rhythm and pace, the necessary musicality of text.
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This is my trademark: I rip my T-shirt. I'm into the whole showing-a-bit-of-chest-hair thing.
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Try and fit in in a New Zealand playground with an Armagh accent - it doesn't work.
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If you only believe that you're an artist when you have a big advance in your pocket and a single coming out, I would say that's quite soulless. You have to have a sense of your own greatness and your own ability from a very deep place inside you. I am the one with the litmus test in my hands of what people need to hear next.
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Even though I'm very Westernized as an individual and very Canadian, I guess I've lost some of my Chinese culture.
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Whenever you do an animated project or a voice-over project it's inevitable that part of your personality comes into play.
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I always wrote about things that were important to me. I think our past success showed that it was also important for a lot of others.
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Multinationals are more sensitive to public pressure because they have bigger brand names, and they have made commitments to be environmentally sensitive. Chinese firms are not used to this kind of pressure yet.
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Have patience. All things are difficult before they become easy.
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As Duke Ellington once said, 'the Battle of Waterloo was won on the playing fields of Elkton.' ... About that Wellington guy, I wouldn't know. Ellington, yes. As for that Eton business - well, I married my first wife in Elkton, and I always hated the place. It musta stuck.
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During the first day, curious at having outsiders among them, a long stream of inmates came over and talked with me. Remarkably, according to what they told me, nearly every inmate in the prison didn't do it. Several thousand people had been locked up unjustly and, by an incredible coincidence, all in the same prison. On the other hand, they knew an awful lot about how to knife somebody.
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I buy records from all across the board. I get kind of a hybrid of influences in my own music.
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I've always been a big proponent of not working for the sake of working, because I don't want to work for the rest of my life - I want to live.
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Aviators live by hours, not by days.
